how can i install R (the statistical package)

Hi,

I'm new to ubuntu and linux. I would like to install R but I don't know how. I think i have to issue some apt command at the command line, however, I'm not sure exactly what. I've googled around but could not find anything. I hope somebody can help me to know what command i should type.

Re: how can i install R (the statistical package)

Don't think you can apt-get R.
download r-base-core_2.2.0.final-0sarge2_i386.deb r-mathlib_2.2.0.final-0sarge2_i386.deb r-base_2.2.0.final-0sarge2_i386.build r-recommended_2.2.0.final-0sarge2_i386.deb (think you need them all, if you run amd64pick the once which ends on amd64) fromhttp://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/debian/sarge/
they worked for me.
Normally firefox saves to desktop, so open a terminal and write
cd Desktop && sudo dpkg -i *.deb

Re: how can i install R (the statistical package)

the thing is, I was interested in R when I was writing my thesis. then I found out that I cannot use it until I get an R course... at the university I mean.

So I got stuck with spss and vmware while writing the thesis... wasn't happy...

R has so much potential. It has so much potential that you can't grasp it (letalone learn it) quickly without a nice GUI that will allow you to "play around". A nice gui with understandable menus, sensible buttons, and a "my user is stupid" attitude

without such a stupid[me]-oriented gui, it seems to me that only the R-book-readers and R-class-takers will be able to use it, not those who have to "write it now and learn it later".

ps. cmdr is very nice when compared to tk. but, weirdly, it blocks its developers from writing a gui for R, because they keep saying "hey we have a gui".